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SATURDAY EVENING, SEIT. 11.
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CivUnty may be truly said to cost
nothing: if it d-oes not meet with a 1
good return, it at least leaves you in
the most creditable position.—Beau ]
Brummcl. '
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NEW INSURANCE FUND
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THE whole State is vitally inter- 1 1
ested in plans for the permanent
organization of the Workmen's !
Compensation Board, published at 1
come length by the Telegraph yester- j
<day.
The new law, which will he put into
operation on January 1, applies dl- '
rectly or indirectly to practically !
everybody in Pennsylvania, young or
old, rich or poor, male or female. ,
Every wage earner and every em
ployer is affected firsthand, and
every wage-earner's beneficiary or de- 1
pendents and every person with money | 1
Invested come Indirectly under the ] i
•operations of this new law. j.
In a measure It may be said to be !
experimental and is therefore of all J 1
the more Interest. In a general way!
the operations of the law are pro-<
vided for by the statute itself, but to I
n large degree it must be worked out!
with respect to Its application to In- j
dividual instances. Every move thatj
ithe new board makes will be watched j
jwith keen Interest. More and more]
(the Government and the individual are j
fbeing drawn together in those inti- j
anato relations of life with which gov- !
wmment in the early years of the'
•Commonwealth had very little to do.
*The new oompensatlon act is another
«tep in this direction.
URGES SHTP PURCHASE 811/ I,
THE President has ordered the
Interstate Commerce Commis- j
sion to investigate the transpor-1
tation facilities and rates between this
country and foreign nations. He ex
pects to use the information in his re
newed fight for a government-owned
merchant marine. There is a strong
legal question as to whether the In
terstate Commerce Commission has a
right to inquire into the necessity for
the governmental purchase, financing
or operation of a merchant marine.
But, whether the action is legal or
not, it goes to show the dogged per
sistence of the President. The ship
purchase bill was never demanded by |
any party platform, it never enjoyed
the favor of any considerable group
of people, it was brought forward as
a personal scheme of the President
and McAdoo, and by Presidential
pressure It was forced through one
branch of Congress, only to meet de
feat In the Senate through the cour
ageous resistance of the Republican
minority, aided by a few rational
minded Democrats. Since then tho
■businessmen of the country—in whose
Interests the President assumes to be
acting—have declared emphatically in
opposition to the scheme.
Yet the President persists; and he
•Intends to employ the power and In
fluence and activities of any govern
mental agency In his attempt to force \
this obnoxious measure through Con
gress.
SCHWAB
WHEN Charles M. Schwab broke
away from the United States
Bteel Corporation and an
,flounced his intention of "going into
business for himself" there were many
In the steel business and out of it
who predicted failure. "Bucking the
trust," they said, "Schwab would find
very similar to bucking one's head
Against a stone wall."
In the light of recent developments
(It would he interesting to know wheth
er Sch-w&b foresaw the future of Beth
rlehem Steel or whether he has sim
iply taken advantage of opportunities
jus they offered. In this connection
'lt 1s to be remembered that Schwab
remarked two years ago, when he did
Inot dream the great nations of Eu
irope would all be engaged in war,
Ithat Bethlehem Steel common some
day would sell at S2OO a share. Beth
leh«m Steel at that time was not
.sought for. In fact, the condition of
the stock market wm such in the
creator part of 1913 and 1911 that lc-
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[ trinsic values counted for little. The
tendency of everything was downward.
Had there been a revival of the
I stock market on the constructive side
|in 1914, In the absence of the Euro
! I>ean war as a factor, Bethlehem Steel
| common on Its record of 28 per cent.
\ for two consecutive years on the stock
market, might have sold at par, per
haps at $l5O.
Now Europe virtually turns a
stream of gold Into the treasury of the
company, which is expected to reach
a value equal to SSOO a share on the
common in two years on orders al
ready booked. Steel manufacturers
say Schwab is the best sales agent In
the United States. He is not taking
business that can be wiped off the
books at a moment's notice. Hla con
tracts with the allies are Arm, and
deliveries on the $250,000,000 of or
ders now on hand are assured.
What the business of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation will amount to af
ter the war is another question. The
career of this young captain of the
steel industry surpasses even that of
Carnegie. Like Carnegie he Is a great
] Individual figure In the Iron world, but
he Is solitary, whereas Carnegie con
tinually surrounded himself with men
some of whom were scarcely second
to himself in popular estimation.
And Schwab s future is even more in
teresting than his past.
A QUESTION OF FAIR PLAY
UNDER the existing political sys
tem there is always more or less
play to the galleries, particularly
on the part of those who delude them
selves with the idea that Lincoln was
mistaken in his conclusion that "you
can't fool all the people all the i
time." i
Right here in Harrisburg at the
present time there is a little game on ,
foot to further certain political inter
ests by promoting an alleged non
partisan combination for City Coun
cil. To accomplish the purposes of i
the cunning promoters it is planned
to misrepresent In every way the Re
publican members of the Council, who
with their Democratic colleagues, are
seeking re-election. So far as possible
the people are to have dust thrown
in their eyes so that they may not see
what is going on. Meanwhile the non
partisan ditty is to be warbled In every
known key.
But it's all a question of fair play
and in the last analysis the voters,
when they learn the truth, are fair and
reasonable. They must investigate for
I themselves, however, and then deter
mine whether there is any justification
for the open, but more frequently the
sly. attacks upon the three Republicans
who hav« been In charge of the con
' structive departments of the city gov-
I ernment during the last two years. It
i should be said that these men were
' greatly handicapped during the several j
| months at the outset of the commission '
I form of government by the necessary
j apportionment of duties and adjust
i ment of changed conditions. They were
| confronted with serious municipal
problems and even their partisan
critics are compelled to admit that the
working out of these problems was
beset with many difficulties. That
they have done so well under such
trying circumstances has been a mat
ter of comment among the officials of
| other Pennsylvania cities.
It Is, therefore, most unfair and
unjust for purely political purposes:
and to further the ambitions of others
to misrepresent and a-buse the three
men constituting the majority of the
City Council who have striven, as we
believe, to give the city faithful and
satisfactory service. Theirs has been j
no divided responsibility. Their time i
has been devoted entirely to the dls- 1
charge of official duties. Of course, i
It will be said that it were better to!
hire subordinates to do the work and
allow the commissioners to simply
direct and supervise their labors, but
Harrisburg is in the midst of its great
est development, pulsating with enery 1
at every turn, and there is need for
constant personal attention by those
charged with the administration of Its
affairs.
It is the unquestioned privilege of
others to seek these positions and
scheming for political advantage is
likely to continue so long as the peo
ple rule and the world stands, but
! let the game go on fairly, so far as
Harrisburg is concerned, and without
misrepresentation of the officials who
have achieved so much in so short a
time. If Lynch and Taylor and Bow
man are not the sort of men to con
i duct the city's business, they should
be defeated; but let us give these and
1 all our public servants full credit for
the good work they do and not dls
, courage decent service for the people
I by carping criticism.
I These men may have made mistakes
and In view of the circumstances under
■which they assumed office It would
have been remarkable, indeed, If they
. had not, but they have a right to be
' conslderad fairly with all the other
' candidates and given a square deal.
| The Telegraph has no brief from
. these men to champion their cause
, and it has no complaint to make of
■ any other candidate, but In the interest
of efficient public service it makes here
c ! and now this protest against the
s | hypocrisy which is cloaked with the
-jgarments of "reform."
CK
By the Er-o)mmltt«em»B
Returns already received from var
ious cities of the State to-day Indi
cate that the registration of voters
will be something immense as com
pared with other registration days.
This is the last registration day In
the three classes of cities and as there
are local contests In every count- the
Interest among party workers is at a
high pitch and officials and candidates
and prominent men are urging the
voters to go out and list their names
so that they can take part In the pri
mary battle.
Generally speaking, the return to
the party movement is on in full force
all over Pennsylvania and the Repub
lican registration is so great in most
cities that Democrats and soreheads
are trying to excuse it by saying that
the people who register Republican
now are only doing it to perpetrate va
rious nefarious things at the primary.
The primary election is juet ten
days off and it will be the place where
the family differences will be fought
out and the party lines drawn Imme
diately after for a notable campaign.
Thomas B. Smith appears to be giv
ing considerable pain to the indepen
dent element in Philadelphia because
of the manner in which his candidacy
,is being received in the Southern dis
[trict of Philadelphia. The Vare men
are lining up for him and gave him a
great demonstration last rright.
W. C. Thomas has been appointed
burgess of Weatherly to fill a va
cancy.
Representative Walter S. Youn&, of
Lykens, is a candidate for his old
place of justice of the peace again.
Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Pal
mer will be a candidate for delegate
at large to the Baltimore convention
next year according to reports which
are going the rounds.
Representative William Luxem
burger, who Is a candidate for county
controller in Lackawanna county is
the center of a storm just now. Some
Democrats want him out and others
demand that he stay in.
The Cumberland county judicial
contest is commencing to attract at
tention throughout the State and a
number of men prominent in State
politics are watching the outcome. It
Is an open secret that the Democratic
State bosses failed signally in an ef
fort to get the Democrats to agree
upon a candidate.
Director Porter appears to be get
ting into trouble in Philadelphia.
They now oharge that a messenger in
liis department has been circulating
petitions right at his office door.
Ex-Mayor John Von Bergen, of
Scranton, is a candidate for county
commissioner and there is a lively
fight being made upon him.
The Schuylkill county enrollment in
vestigation appears to be demonstrat
ing the strength of the return to the
party movement. The Republican list
is standing up.
The contest for judge In Tioga
county is on the home stretch and It
is predicted that at least four of the
candidates will be closelv bunched.
Friends of Thomas A.. Crlchton say
that his campaign is in good shape.
On the outcome of the judicial pri
mary in Erie county may hang the
appointment of a judge to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Judge
Paul A. Benson.
EXPLODED S.UOOX THEORIES
[From the Kansas City Times.]
There was an old theory that saloons
I could do anything in cities and still be
i safe. The saloon politicians who force
i licenses for beer gardens near schools
and churches seem to believe in that
theory still.
But—
There was an old theory that South
ern States would never go dry.
Many of them have.
There was a theory, not so very old,
that only the country neighborhoods
and very small towns of Missouri were
against the saloons. On that theory the
brewers beat the County Unit bill and
kept separate the city and country
votes on local option.
Nearly every Missouri town and eitv
that has voted since that time has voted
dry
Just the other day Alderman "Hinky
Dink" McKenna, of Chicago, wailed
sharply that "those 'Dry-Chicago-in
-1916' boys will win If we don't step
lively."
The remarkable growth of the sen
timent against the liquor trade has been
promoted by nothing so much as by the i
stupid bullheadedness of the liquor
trade Itself. It is especially stupid and !
bullheaded In the big cities.
BI.ISS AND BLISTER
fCincinnati Commercial Tribune.]
"Courtship is bliss,' said the ardent !
young man. "Yes, and matrimony is i
blister," snarled the old bachelor.
"THE DAY"
I [From the Cincinnati Commercial
L Tribune.]
t The day to choose your wife is
Chooseday. Wed-nesday is the day to
| get married, of course.
TAFT OX PREPARATION
[Cincinnati Tribune.]
Ex-President Taft is to be' congrat
ulated upon the stand he took in his
speech at San Francisco Thursday.
While a tense situation existed be
tween the United States and the Im
perial German Government it was not
at all difficult to arouse interest in the
discussion of proper preparedness for
any emergencies which might arise j
in connection with the adjustment of !
future international problems. With i
the solution of the dispute with the I
Teutonic government many persons j
with mercurial temperaments and
lacking in continuity of thought will
forget the pressing dajiger and flip
pantly will say: "Oh, well, it didn't
happen! We should worry!"
No one of ordinary intelligence ever
I has considered Mr. Taft a radical or
!an alarmist. A great big man, both
mentally and physically, he has ob
served, with judicial calm, the trend
of events. As Secretary of* War and
President he is in position to know the
strength and the appalling weaknesses'
of every branch of the defense system
iof the United States. When he speaks
his views carry the backing of abso
lute knowledge of the conditions dis
cussed and his recommendations cer
tainly should be received with respect
ful consideration.
Certainly there is nothing outstand
ingly iconoclastic In tho very modest
increases he suggests. For instance
, the 20,000 additional sailors simply
would make effective the navy which
| would stand between this nation and
, a foreign invader. Fifty thousand
more regulars, which would give the
' country a mobile army of something
I like 80,000 men. certainly would not
threaten to place the curse of militar
> ism upon 100,000,000 freeborn men
women. More to the point is his idea
1 concerning the training of civilian of
■ fleers and the popularizing of enlist
ments with the'view of building up a
strong reserve force ready always to
i defend their home land.
Even In our present condition none
> of the great powers of the earth seem
, desirous to tackle conclusions with Un
cle Sam. With a symmetrical and ef
. flclent navy and a second line of de
, fense, consisting of a well-trained cit
izen soldiery, not a single one of them
s would needlessly provoke a fight. The
uost of such a system would be cheap
1 Insurance against the horrors and
'lwms oven of a victorious war.
A H6
celebration. m " Father Harr ' B ln the attltud e getting his first glimpse of the dawn of the big municipal
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE~|
—Dumba has found that It would
have been better to remain Just dumb.
—Looks as though Mayor Royal
might have his eye on his Meals ticket.
—No, Maude dear, there Is no truth
In the rumor that next year's calen
dars will have it labelled as Automo
bile Day; for form's sake It will stand
as Sunday.
—The Red Men are going to prove
to John Harris, if perchance, he in
spirit pay a visit to his old haunts dur
ing the celebration, that there are still
many good Indians in and about Har
rlsburg.
—About this season the vacation in
fatuation begins to feel the effects of
the Fall frosts.
—lf the publicity representatives of
the warring powers know the temper
of the American people they'll not at
tempt any first page stunts during the
world's series. We are a long suffer
ing nation but we have our limits; we
have our limits; yes sir, and this is
them.
WEED-CUTTING TIME
I had a brother whom I thought a
pest—
He seemed to think I never needed rest.
When wheat was stacked and ready to
be thrashed—
The crop laid by and I, all unabashed.
Would take a book or magazine and i
lie
fWith wondrous tales before my hungrv I
eye)
Beneath a tree, to cultivate my mind.
That ruthless brother would steal up i
behind I
And say: "Come on—you've done that
long enough.
We'd better mosey out an' cut some i
stuff."
With Inward groans I'd put the book I
away
The meanwhile praying for a rainy
day!
And we. with hoes or briar-scythes,
would get out
On some hot hillside where we'd put to
rout
The hostile hosts of thistles, mulleins—
yes.
And white-topped yarrow—could never
guess
i Just why these weeds In such profusion
grew
When surely they, possessed of malice,
knew
That was my only chance to read and
rest
i Instead of whacking "round some hot
hill's crest.
i Now when about the country I am
j Jerked
And see the sort of hills on which I
worked.
[My memory-sharpened eyes are always
peeled
To see if, in some catUe-dotted field,
I The mullein, yarrow, thistle and their
mates
Are growing, all unconscious of their
fates.
And then I chuckle, back Inside of me,
To think it's past, and I don't have to
be
Out there to whack around as once I
did
When I was Just a book-starved, laiy
kid!
—Strickland Gillilan In Farm Life.
SOUNDS RATHER HYSTERICAL
[From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
Premier Asqulth says John Bull can
ilau" at the fear of Invasion, but some
how the laugh sounds rather hysterical.
AND ARE NOT PARTICULAR
[Charleston News and Courier.]
Mr. Bryan's tough luck began when
he wasn't born a Mexican. Mexico has
had nine Presidents In two years.
Our Daily Laugh
TL#
The do-nothing i
Be vex seem* to
tire of what he is
KiDLnae.
aV If 1 A. Tou seem to
V I Have become re
to Wlllle'B
xtEmSi * olns rwlm "
jf. t 4 (111 Ton see, dear,
lit: l|\l>||\] l** B *bout th«
llfP'Tu °® ly way I can
M ft get him to wash
W£/ his faca.
UNTIL—
By Win* Dinner
There comes a time each year, dear
, friend,
When everyone would fain
Go 'way for fun; I leave to-day
For mine—Auf Weiciereeiia.
MILITARY
By Frederic J. Haskin
WHEN the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States
meets in Washington to-day,
to-morrow and Wednesday for its an
nual convention, there will be assem
bled a body of men who, many hold,
nro responsible for the greatest good
that has boen accomplished in the
present generation.
For, the wise ones say, the future
will know the span of years through
which the world is now passing as the
era of sanitation. In the last decade
and a half, the world has learned
more of the secrets back of deadly
diseases and how to combat them than
it had in a thousand years before.
Practically nil the great discoveries
that have meant the undoing of one
after another of the diseases that had
terrorized the world and taken their
tolls by the hundreds of thousands,
have come about through the work
of the men assembled in the present
convention.
It may therefore not be amiss to
enumerate at this time a few of these
stupendous accomplishments. The
latest and among the biggest of them
is the mastery of typhoid, the disease
that takes every year the heaviest toll
of the peoples of the world of any
of those that attack vitals and suck
away their lives.
Typhoid has always been a disease
which armies were particularly likely
to get, and which ran through them
most devastatingly. It has been no
uncommon thing for typhoid alone to
kill more men than did the enemy.
This was true in the Spanish-Ameri
can war. Diseases ln general have al
ways been more deadly to troops than
have the attacks of the enemy. The
first war in which disease killed
fewer men than did fighting was the
Russo-Japanese war. which occurred
after the dawn of the era of sanita
tion. In the present war in Europe
disease is playing a lesser part than
in any conflict in all history and be
cause of the discoveries recently made
by military surgeons.
First Step Toward Mastery
It was in the Spanish-American
war. when recruits were dying of ty
phoid like poisoned ants, that the
military surgeons drew the conclusion,
and proved it, that the disease was
carried by flies. This in itself was
vastly valuable, for flies might be
kept from contaminated material and
might be screened from houses.
I But the second step toward a rear
The Searchlight I
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REVOLUTIONIZED WOMEN'S HATS
In the "Interesting People" depart
ment of the September American
Magazine appears an article about
William Dutcher who has done more
than any other American to awaken
people to the cruelty and stupidity of
slaughtering beautiful and useful
birds. He and others finally succeeded
ln having laws passed so far-reaching
that they changed the whole aspect
of millinery. In the hard struggle Mr.
Dutcher sacrificed his health. Fol
lowing is an extract from the article
about him:
"Nothing ever tired or discouraged
him. Ending a day's work in his
office, he would jump on a train to go
and do another harder day's work be
fore midnight among the legislators
at Albany. Politicians lived in terror
of this 'bird crank.' The aigrette trade,
which he fought from the first, spiked
his guns when it could with a paid
lobby. He got hard knocks and many
defeats, but ln 1910 his efforts were
crowned with success when the Em
pire State passed the Plumage Law
forbidding the sale of 'the white badge
of cruelty.'
"He never wearied of preaching the
great value of Insectivorous birds to
agriculture; yet the farmers and fruit
growers of the United States probably
never will realize how much his labors
b'eneflted them. He cared not a feath
er's weight who got the glory for any
of his work, so long as it was accom
plished. Even the millinery dealers
and the 'game hog,' while they fought
his reforms, admitted his unselfish
ness. There was nothing he would not
do for anyone who showed the slight
est interest in his hobby."
EDITORIAL COMMENT
It may be natural for Americans to
grin when they run across such names
as Przemsyl, Przhedborzh, Llpsk and
Pskof ln the daily news, but the peo
ple who receive no Jar when they
stumble over such names as Punxsu
tawney, Youghlogheny, Yreka and
Hohokus don't appear to have any
license to laugh at nomenclature of
other lands. It's mostly ln the way It
looks to the eye, anyhow.—Erie Her
ald.
The Czar has put himself at the head
of the Russian army and transferred
his Uncle Nick, because of alleged 111
health. "Stand back and watch me
pitch" says the one Nick to the other.
Well, let's see!—Willtamsport Sun.
It takes a Georgia mofc to push the
initiative, referendum, and recall to
their logical limit. —Pittsburgh Oazette-
Tlm«»
mastery of the typhoid question did
not occur until ten years later. Then
the United States heard that military
surgeons abroad had developed a vac
cine against typhoid. It sent an army
surgeon, Major Frederick F. Russell,
to Europe to study the work of Eng
land and Germany and France along
this line. Major Russell found that
nil these nations had vaccine, but
that none of them seemed reliably ef
fective. Out of the methods of all
these nations he evolved a vaccine of
his own which was effective and
which immediately drove typhoid
from the American army. Its use was
made compulsory here and the re
sults were BO strikingly desirable that
the product of Uncle Sam's labora
tories is now making immune Euro
pean troops by the million and un
doubtedly saving hundreds of thou
sands of lives each year.
The ultimately greatest benefit of
a discovery of this sort is not, of
course, in its application to armies
but to whole peoples. There is little
question but what the time will soon
come when whole peoples will be
vaccinated against typhoid and the
disease will become almost unknown.
Fighting Yellow Fever
The story of the three army sur
geons who went to Cuba to solve the
riddle of yellow fever is among the
most dramatic in medical annals.
They had but the theory of the trans
mission of the disease by the mos
quito. Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, in the
yellow fever ward of an army field
hospital, watched an Infected mos
quito alight upon his hand, wipe its
bill with its front feet and begin the
process of making an incision. He
let it remain until it had drunk itself
full of his blood. It was writing his
death warrant, for a few days later
fle died in most terrible agonj.
John -R. Kissinger and John J.
Moran were healthy young troopers
from Ohio. In the face of Dr. La
zear's death they volunteered to sub
mit themselves as subjects for further
experiments. They failed to take the
disease from being housed with yel
low fever patients, even after sleeping
In their beds. But both came down
when bitten by infected mosquitos.
Both recovered. Each refused the
bonus of SSOO offered them by the
government. Nt much was ever said
of their work. But their's was her
[Continued on Page 12.]
f The State From Day to Day^
All roads will lead to Allentown to
the big fair on September 21, 22, 23
and 24, except those that lead to Har
risburg for the great celebration and
river carnival on the last two days of
the fair.
• • •
"Climaxing a week of maniacal vio
lence, Adam Snyder, murderer of Mrs.
Plummer Port, awaiting the date of his
execution, attempted suicide in the
Huntington county Jail yesterday. He
improvised a rope from his undershirt
and a towel, fastened it to a cell bar,
and swung out Into space, dangling by
his neck. His convulsive death strug
gles broke the rope and released htm,
but he was revived with great diffi
culty.—Lancaster Daily Examiner.
Another example of the extreme
danger of allowing typhoid "carriers"
at large was brought to light in Dan
ville, Pa., when It was discovered that
one of the assistant chefs at the State
Hospital for the Insane had been ill
and on duty with walking typhoid for
three weeks before he took to his bed.
As a result there are now eighty cases
In the hospital.
• • *
The Bristol Courier tells of a Lang
home scientist who Jias converted the
innocent tomato into an implement of
war, by grafting In some way the pois
onous nightshade and the tomato to
gether. The result is food on one side
and poison on the other. Rather a safe
bit of the vegetable kingdom to keep
away from, it would seem.
York, Pa.. Sept. 10.—A former Phil
adelphian, James Henessey, having
faith in the bee-stlng cure for rheuma
tism, tried it nut with the assistance
of a friend. The bees were unused to
this method of procedure, and a large
number of them devoted their atten
tion to the friend and to the portions
of Mr. Henessey where they did the
least good. He was convinced, how
ever, that at least sixty of the stings
were effective.
• • •
Coincident with the marriage of
Robert Haslett and Mrs. Mary Mac-
Laren at the home of the brlds's son,
Dr. MacLaren, In Towanda, it came
about that the bridegroom, being the
father of the doctor's wife, becomes
his own daughter's father-in-law, and
his bride becomes her son's mother-in
law. This recalls the old story of how
a man, by Just the same, although more
so, mixed relationships due to vuri
ous marriages, actually became his own
grandfather.
• • •
Philadelphia. Sept. 10.—A prominent,
well-to-do Philadelphia woman is ad
vertising in the newspapers for a bnby
boy whom she will adopt us the twin
of her own, which is expected to be
born in a few days. No one in the
family except the nurse, family phy
sician, and herself is to know the sec
ret. Even the poor father is to be
fooled. The mother wants the adopted
child-to-be to be a. living memorial to
the on* who died in infancy.
Ehfcttbtg Qftjat]
Am an example of condensation of Mo
toric facta Into small coznpass the In-*'
•crlption prepared by State Librarian
Thomas Lynch Montgomery for the
tablet that Is to mark the site of
John Harris' Ferry, which some one
has aptly termed "the reauson for
Harrlsburg," Is hard to equal. Mr.
Montgomery has put the history of
almost three-quarters of a century,
the period of this community's swad- -J
dlingf clothes, into a few sentences,
pointing out the national significance
of the Ferry. The average Harris
burger seldom thinks of the tremend
ous part played by the almost forgot
ten ford and scarcely more remember
ed ferry in the settlement of Pennsyl
vania to the south of us and to the
west of us, of Ohio, Kentucky and In
diana, parts of Virginia and even
North Carolina. There was a line of
forts along the Blue Ridge from over
in the Jerseys beyond Easton clear
down into Western North Carolina and
Harris Ferry was one of the places on
the line of defense, because that Is
what it was as much as a trail of
pioneers. Hence Mr. Montgomery
strikes at the high point of our past
history. He has written for the bronze
tablet that will bear the words for
years to come that this was the site
of the crossing of greatest historic
interest on the wide branching Sus
quehanna. "A great part of the early
migration into Western Pennsylvania
and the Ohio Valley passed this way,"
he says. When you stop to think what
that has meant in American history it
is something: to be so proud of that we
wonder why we did not mark the
place before. Mr. Montgomery em
bodies in a few more sentences the
grant of the ferry right and the re
lationship of the two John Harrises.
It is the story of our home epitomized
down to 1785.
The other day a well-known Har
risburger stopped oft in Elizabeth
ville and finding time hanging heavy
on his hands thought he would pay a
call on his old friend James E. Lentz.
Accosting a small boy in the street he
asked:
"I say, my lad, do you know where
Mr. James E. Lentz resides?"
"Who?" asked the boy in return.
"Mr. James E. Lentz," repeated the
man.
"Never heard of him," replied the
boy.
"That's strange, I thought he was a
prominent man in this town. Seems
to me he's the assistant superintend
ent of the Sunday school, the chair
man of the union picnic committee,
the chairman of the football assocla- .
tion, the "
"Ah," broke in the urchin disgusted
ly, "he lives right down that street,
six doors. Tou mean 'Jimmy'."
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"I have been surprised at the num
ber of former Pennsylvanians residing
In California." said a resident of an
up-State county yesterday in talking
about a trip he had made to the Gold
en Gate. "In every one of the big
California cities it seemed that I ran
across some one from this State, many
of them my own acquaintances who
had gone to the coast to live. Some
of them are taking prominent parts
in the life in that section, too."
• • •
National Guardsmen in this city are
speculating on the make up of the
team which will be selected to rep
resent Pennsylvania In the national
rifle matches at Jacksonville. It hap
pens that this city has some of the
most expert marksmen in the guard,!
and the Eighth and other
tions hereabouts will probably be rep
resented. • .
• • •
Here is another jitney story: The
other day a trolley car became stalled
on a curve in the central part of the
city and gave an imitation of a roll
ing mill in its efforts to get under
way.. The passengers became restive
and a crowd gathered, of course,
speculating on how long the block
would last. Then right along side the
car moved in a jitney and its driver
with fine regard for the proprieties,
called out: "Up-town; going now."
| WELL KNOWN PEOPUE
—John H. Thompson, who was here
a day or so ago, is prominent in Pitts
burgh banking affairs.
—Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, has
returned from a visit to Canada.
—Judge Raymond MacNeille, of
Philadelphia, is agitating opening a
school for parents.
—Dr. H. I. Klopp, head of the Rit
tersville State Hospital, has almost 1,-
000 persons under his care now.
—lsaac R. Pennypacker, the Phila
delphia historian, has been visiting
Eaglesmere.
—J. C. Norris, of New Castle, is the
new head of the State's retail mer
chants.
| DO YOU KNOW ~~
That Harrisburg Is making
hosiery for South America?
HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG
This city was knovm as Harris'
Ferry for fifty years or more be
fore the Revolution.
, IN HARR.ISBURG FIFTY YEARS r
AGO TO-DAY |
[From the Telegraph of Sept. 11, 1865.]
Another Reglmeut Here
The Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania Regi
ment arrived here last night and is now
in camp awaiting payment and dis
charge.
Special Meeting at Hope
A special meeting wil be held this
evening In the Hop.e Fire Company
house. Every member has been asked
to be present as ap Important business
Item will be voted on at the session.
Copperhenda Meet
The Copperheads held a convention
to-day In the Courthouse and chose
several persons for various offices on
their party ticket.
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»
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York.
I—
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